Myleene Klass warned by police after scaring off intruders with knife

[oracleslave]

Works for me!

I don't believe you

[Pogle]

I don't believe you

Quite right too

[Diver]

Miss Klass, 31, who was alone in her house in Potters Bar, Herts, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, called the police. When they arrived at her house they informed her that she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon" – even in her own home – was illegal.

I now have a drawer full of kitchen knives that I am not allowed to use! I can't even remove them because it's against the law for me to carry them.

Do you think I should call a police officer to come and chop my veg for Sunday dinner

[TimberWolf]

Read TFA. As one might expect from the Telegraph, most of it is written by her publicist, and none of it justifies the headline.

I honestly cannot understand how intelligent people can read this kind of garbage without seeing through it.

AtW: I strongly recommend two books to you. One is Nick Davies's Flat Earth News, pub.2008. The other is Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives by Henry Porter, pub.1984. (You should be able to get hold of a copy of the latter via AbeBooks; I did the other year.)

Actually, I don't just recommend them to AtW, but to everybody. Porter's is particularly good at explaining how the Press word things in such a way as to make you think they said a certain thing when in fact they said nothing of the kind, they just made you think it - this seems to be a common problem, judging by the posts made here by many

Bad Science is a popular book too. Can't say I've read the whole book. He has a website too.

[gingerjedi]

Indeed.

The easiest way round this is to believe nothing you read or what people say.

You can't go wrong then.

Or avoid news altogether as advised in ''How to be free', the reason being it will only make you miserable and there's nothing you can do about it anyway.

[norrahe]

Bad Science is a popular book too. Can't say I've read the whole book. He has a website too.

Bad science is a very good book and opens your eyes to the BS being spread by the sceience and medical professions.

[Bagpuss]

Bad science is a very good book and opens your eyes to the BS being spread by the sceience and medical professions.

misinterpretation and misuse of science by journalists and other non scientists.

[Moscow Mule]

misinterpretation and misuse of science by journalists and other non scientists.

What the saggy old one said.

However, "scientists" don't help themselves by releasing un-peer-reviewed findings in a press release rather than scientific journals. But, that is what sells newspapers these days.

[Halo Jones]

Indeed.

The easiest way round this is to believe nothing you read or what people say.

You can't go wrong then.

I took your advice sweetie: I checked it out, you said that size was normal, now that was a little lie was it not

[centurian]

Just seen this on Sky News. According to the their report (normal caveats apply), she didn't even leave her house. The intruders were in her back yard. She banged on the window while holding a knife in the other - and the police told her this could be illegal